Pamela Redmond Satran

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Pamela Redmond Satran
BornPamela Redmond
(1953-04-10) April 10, 1953 (age 68)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater University of Wisconsin–Madison
Period1988-present
Genre
Notable works Younger
Children3
Website
www.pamelaredmondsatran.com

Pamela Redmond Satran (born April 10, 1953), now known as Pamela Redmond, is an American entrepreneur and author of fiction and nonfiction. [1] Her novel Younger, published in 2005, is the basis for a TV series of the same name created by Darren Star and starring Sutton Foster and Hilary Duff. [2] An expert on English personal naming, [3] Satran is the CEO of the naming website Nameberry.

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Life and career

Personal life and education

Raised in Norwood, New Jersey, [4] Satran attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she was arts editor of The Daily Cardinal . [5] After college, she moved to Brooklyn and worked as a fashion editor at Glamour magazine in New York and later as a fashion features editor. [1]

Satran lived Montclair, New Jersey from the 1980s [1] until 2015, when she moved to Los Angeles. In the 1990s Satran lived in Hampstead, London. While there, she coauthored books on naming in England and Ireland. In the late 1990s, Satran lived with her family in Berkeley, California, where she studied novel writing with Elizabeth George and Ann Packer. [6]

Satran is divorced and is the mother of three children.[ citation needed ]

Satran left Glamour to co-author Beyond Jennifer & Jason (1988), a book analyzing style, image, and trends in personal naming, with Linda Rosenkrantz. [1] The pair went on to write ten books on the subject, including The Baby Name Bible and Cool Names. [7]

In 2008, seeing that information about names had migrated from books to the Internet, Satran and Rosenkrantz founded Nameberry, now the world's largest baby name website with a database of over 70,000 names, thematic naming lists, a daily blog, and forums for name searchers and enthusiasts. [1]

Fiction

Satran writes novels that explore women's lives and issues from a contemporary and historical perspective. Her first novel, The Man I Should Have Married, published in 2003, focuses on a woman retracing the decisions of her life and correcting her mistakes. [8]

Her 2005 novel Younger, about a woman in her forties who pretends to be in her twenties in order to get an entry-level job, is the basis for a TV show of the same name. The show, which debuted on TVLand on March 31, 2015, stars Sutton Foster, Hilary Duff, Debi Mazar, and Miriam Shor.

Satran's 2012 novel, The Possibility of You, is inspired by the story of her Irish grandmother moving to the United States in the early 20th century and examines the lives of three women grappling with unplanned pregnancies at three key moments in U.S. history. [9]

Bibliography

Novels

Humor books

Name books (with Linda Rosenkrantz)

Other nonfiction

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